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<blockquote data-quote="rolfw" data-source="post: 243923" data-attributes="member: 175057">Digital sales have a distinct interest in trying to make it look to Publicans that there is nothing illegal in the use of these cards (whether civil or criminal) for commercial performances/rebroadcasts (they do charge a rather high premium on them). To call them chancers may perhaps be too strong, but they, along with a couple of other companies have built up a very lucrative business out of&nbsp; a dubious legal copyright loophole.&nbsp; Again they attempt to muddy the waters by trying to bring the domestic viewers into the frame, when we all know that there is very little the copyright holders can do about them and are probably not that interested in so doing, but it is the commercial use of domestic subscriptions from overseas providers which is the case in point.I'd love to see a firm and official outcome to these cases in either direction and if it comes out on the side of the Publicans, then all the better. In fact it would then mean that by avoiding the Sky subscription in a legitimate way, they wouldn't be forced to use these chancer companies who charge ridiculous premiums for very basic setups and cards of which we all know the true market prices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rolfw, post: 243923, member: 175057"] Digital sales have a distinct interest in trying to make it look to Publicans that there is nothing illegal in the use of these cards (whether civil or criminal) for commercial performances/rebroadcasts (they do charge a rather high premium on them). To call them chancers may perhaps be too strong, but they, along with a couple of other companies have built up a very lucrative business out of a dubious legal copyright loophole. Again they attempt to muddy the waters by trying to bring the domestic viewers into the frame, when we all know that there is very little the copyright holders can do about them and are probably not that interested in so doing, but it is the commercial use of domestic subscriptions from overseas providers which is the case in point. I'd love to see a firm and official outcome to these cases in either direction and if it comes out on the side of the Publicans, then all the better. In fact it would then mean that by avoiding the Sky subscription in a legitimate way, they wouldn't be forced to use these chancer companies who charge ridiculous premiums for very basic setups and cards of which we all know the true market prices. [/QUOTE]

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